Show SOME ENLIGHTENMENT The real pointla how ldYOc first Te re pint frt presidency and apostles expect that the president of the United States would I construe the pledges made in that petition Will Fhe Herald please enlighten us on that polntTribune Probably they expected that the presIdent i ident of the UnieU State would construe con-strue that document as the reputed author au-thor of i a dIstinguIshed Republican who is not believed to be a member of the dominant church construed I and the manifesto upon which it wa based That authority and i is not to be questioned at this late day ha dc cared that toe manifesto and come quenty the petition for amnesty went only to the point of plural marriages which had been taught as a holy sacrament sac-rament must not hereafter be solemnized solem-nized That ought to be a good and zulU dent answer to our ntemporrys question But here is another Perhaps Per-haps that petition was intended to pas muster with the president as the same distinguished RepublIcan held that the constitutional provision should pas regarding re-garding the same peculiar conditions He said according to the records of the constitutional convention IT IS NOT WHAT IS TO BE AFTER STAT HOOD BUT IT IS HOW TO OBTAIN STATEHOOD And again he said I wont make a bit of difference td Utah what is in this constitution in regard to that particular par-ticular matter polygamy the Idea Is tcular mater polygmj te to HAVE SQMETHING TO PRESENT TO THE PRESIDENT WHIpH H AND HIS FRIENDS CAN FIND NO FLAW IN And we merely suggest that the amnesty am-nesty petition may have een sent out wIth the same object in viev In any event President McKinl has not shown a disposition to take this iat tel as seriously as some others have seemed to fdr political purposes President Presi-dent McKinley has appointed to post offices in Utah polygamists with all the evidence about their hearthstones that can be found anywhere and he has done so with all the fats before him too Republicans would better attend at-tend to that beam in their own eye |